Review on superior strength and enhanced ductility of metallic nanomaterials

IA Ovid'Ko, RZ Valiev, YT Zhu - Progress in materials science, 2018 - Elsevier
Nanostructured metallic materials having nanocrystalline and ultrafine-grained structures
show exceptional mechanical properties, eg superior strength, that are very attractive for …

[HTML][HTML] Ductility and plasticity of nanostructured metals: differences and issues

YT Zhu, XL Wu - Materials Today Nano, 2018 - Elsevier
Ductility is one of the most important mechanical properties for metallic structural materials. It
is measured as the elongation to failure of a sample during standard uniaxial tensile tests …

Interface affected zone for optimal strength and ductility in heterogeneous laminate

CX Huang, YF Wang, XL Ma, S Yin, HW Höppel… - Materials Today, 2018 - Elsevier
Interfaces have been reported to significantly strengthen and toughen metallic materials.
However, there has been a long-standing question on whether interface-affected-zone (IAZ) …

Achieving excellent mechanical properties in type 316 stainless steel by tailoring grain size in homogeneously recovered or recrystallized nanostructures

M Liu, W Gong, R Zheng, J Li, Z Zhang, S Gao, C Ma… - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
One hopeful path to realize good comprehensive mechanical properties in metallic materials
is to accomplish homogeneous nanocrystalline (NC) or ultrafine grained (UFG) structure …

Superior mechanical properties and deformation mechanisms of a 304 stainless steel plate with gradient nanostructure

YT Sun, X Kong, ZB Wang - International Journal of Plasticity, 2022 - Elsevier
Spatially gradient microstructures have shown a promising application in enhancing
strength-ductility synergy of engineering metals such as austenitic stainless steels. However …

Achieving exceptional strength-ductility synergy in a complex-concentrated alloy via architected heterogeneous grains and nano-sized precipitates

J Fan, X Ji, L Fu, J Wang, S Ma, Y Sun, M Wen… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The development of alloys with excellent strength-ductility synergy is a long-lasting research
theme for material scientists, which also holds true for the newly emerged complex …

Effect of heterostructure and hetero-deformation induced hardening on the strength and ductility of brass

XT Fang, GZ He, C Zheng, XL Ma, D Kaoumi, YS Li… - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Heterostructured materials have been reported to possess superior combinations of strength
and ductility, which is attributed to hetero-deformation induced (HDI) strengthening and work …

Combining gradient structure and TRIP effect to produce austenite stainless steel with high strength and ductility

X Wu, M Yang, F Yuan, L Chen… - Heterostructured Materials, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter reports a design strategy to combine the benefits from both gradient structure
and transformation-induced plasticity (TRIP). The resultant TRIP-gradient steel takes …

Superior strength and ductility of 316L stainless steel with heterogeneous lamella structure

J Li, Y Cao, B Gao, Y Li, Y Zhu - Journal of Materials Science, 2018 - Springer
Strength and ductility are two of the most important mechanical properties for a metal, but
often trade off with each other. Here, we report a 316L stainless steel with superior …

Mechanism of huge Lüders-type deformation in ultrafine grained austenitic stainless steel

S Gao, Y Bai, R Zheng, Y Tian, W Mao, A Shibata… - Scripta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
A remarkable Lüders-type localized deformation having a huge Lüders strain of 0.4 was
observed in tensile deformation of an ultra-fine grained austenitic stainless steel fabricated …